Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light ...

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state — particularly in the ...

Just when we think traditional education is being tossed into the school trash bin, we get reminded that some of the old ways still actually work. Social studies and civics are being restored to ...

In Holly Martin’s third-grade class at Saint Columbkille in Brighton, the old-fashioned chalkboard has been replaced with an electronic screen. But Martin uses the screen to teach her students a ...

For many, it's an indelible memory: poring over a tablet and trying to replicate the perfect curls and sweep of cursive writing. As more states eliminate the teaching of cursive from their curriculum ...

No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do this, they don’t do that, and most egregiously of all, they don’t loop their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing ...

Writing in cursive might be a lost art in the next few decades. While it was a school staple in elementary grades, it fell out of favor in the last few years. Currently, only 23 states require that ...

BOISE, Idaho (WKRC/KIVI/CNN Newsource) - The Idaho Legislature has passed a bill that would require all Idaho students to be proficient at reading and writing in cursive by the end of 5th grade. Idaho ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...